Friday Jan 25 2008
Baldwin on the Border
I went back to the “T”’s again for today’s slide of a Baldwin DS-4-4-750, one of 53 built between 1949 and 1951, idling between work assignments at the Texas Mexican Railway yard in Laredo, Texas.
When I took this photo on July 19th in 1974, this locomotive was around 25 years old, and the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Locomotive Works had been out of business since 1956. Take note of the unique capping system to close off all three stacks at once to keep water out.
